bits and pieces

[slidingsideways]

1. Rebecca Bross does gymnastics like she's running a football. She also glowers even when she wins. I suppose when you make your kid walk home after bad practices all her life, that's the result.

2. The overhead strobe flashes at the Bell Centre in Montreal (for the photographers) light up the whole television screen. I tried to watch the game, but kept getting warnings from my head. I've had three migraines this week and probably shouldn't push my luck. Countdown to new headache doctor: T minus four days.

3. The cat has started running right across my head every morning as she circles the apartment. Her energy levels have tripled since she recovered from spay surgery. She eats like a horse, her dandruff has disappeared, her coat is beautiful. She likes to sleep in her cat carrier. We think we'll get her a bed with a roof, like the Pod Bed. Green or herringbone gray?

4. I started physical therapy again on Friday. It felt awesome to work out. The only problem is my right ankle, which has not stopped hurting since I came home. There's not much to be done about it, just ice and heat and pain meds.

5. Jon Lester threw a complete game the other night for the Red Sox. I need a Lester t-shirt.

6. New laptop this weekend if I can hold off a headache. My poor old machine is laboring.

7. To buy or not to buy? 20 minutes left. Last week, I managed to turn away from a gorgeous bag, but it wasn't the only one I covet. Update: outbid at the last second. Oh well.

Comments

[wait.livejournal.com]

Green. Reminds me of a pea pod. :)

Cats often get the dandruff from being nervous. Our Sophie flakes on command, the second you pull out the cat carrier. And sheds fur like she has a "detacth" button.

[swerve.livejournal.com]

Cats often get the dandruff from being nervous.

I didn't know that. Being in a shelter would make anyone nervous. Nice to know that even her skin is happier now.

[sittingstill.livejournal.com]

I need a Lester t-shirt.

Wish I could give you mine (except that no one should suffer my old clothes). Reading this spring about the fact that he killed a bobcat because he thought it would look cool stuffed and mounted in his house kind of left him dead to me. :( (I can handle hunting things you can eat; killing a creature for a decoration really bothers me.)

[swerve.livejournal.com]

Ugh. I didn't know about that. I feel pretty much the same as you do about hunting. I've seen Beckett and others posing with dead animals, though I don't know who hunts for food and who hunts for fun. I'd imagine that anyone who earns a decent living and chooses to hunt does it because he enjoys it, though. :(

Hunting seems to be a baseball thing, though. Do we know any players who don't hunt?

[savvyfan.livejournal.com]

It seems to be very much a rural guy thing - guys like Lester and Beckett are all about hunting and fishing in ways it can be difficult to understand if you didn't grow up in that culture. I grew up in a VERY rural area in Maine and deer hunting was all guys talked about in the fall. They really lived for it. I don't think guys who grew up as city kids (like CC Sabathia, for example), are into that stuff.

The funniest thing I heard about athetes who hunt was in regards to Brad Marchand, whose minor league coaches, when informed of his love for hunting, expressed some dismay at the idea of him with a gun. ;-)